Bruce Springsteen has dealt with depression for more than 30 years

Bruce Springsteen told Vanity Fair he has suffered from depression for 30 years, as did his late father Douglas Springsteen.

The 66-year-old rocker opened up to the magazine ahead of his biography "Born to Run" being released Sept. 27.

Springsteen said his dad, who died in 1998 at the age of 73, never told his son he loved him.

"The best you could get was '(I) Love you, Pops,' (switching to his father's voice) 'Eh, me, too.' Even after he had a stroke and he'd be crying, he'd still go, 'Me, too.' You'd hear his voice breaking up, but he couldn't get out the words."

Springsteen also said, like his father, he suffers from depression. He said he's been medicated in the past and has been in therapy for more than 30 years.

Bruce Springsteen appears at the Stand Up for Heroes event at Madison Square Garden in New York, Nov. 7, 2013. (John Minchillo/Invision/AP, File)

"You don't know the illness' parameters," Springsteen said. "Can I get sick enough to where I become a lot more like my father than I thought I might?"

Springsteen said he and his father managed to patch up their differences before Douglas died.

"Bruce, you've been very good to us," Springsteen said his dad told him in 1990, shortly before Springsteen's son Evan was born. "And I wasn't very good to you."

"That was it," said Springsteen. "It was all that I needed, all that was necessary."